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ILLINOIS WESF~i
0 W .."
Deodohcnet offreeprES
Devoted to the concept of free press
Open forum addresses students' coi
By Phyllis Cavallone
Co-News Editor
Members of Student Senate
and other concerned students
crowded into the Davidson
Room on April 23 to join in on
the cabinet forum led by Acting
President Wendell Hess.
The ongoing issue of the
Presidential search was one
topic which quickly surfaced.
Hess announced that the cur-rent
Presidential search
board, consisting of seven
trustees, two students and five
faculty members, have nar-rowed
the choice to three
finalists for the position. Ques-tions
were raised as to why
candidates were coming to
Wesleyan without student
knowledge.
Hess remarked that he was
"personally involved in the
process," and, "This is the
most open (Presidential
search) in my years here. It is
much more open with faculty
and student involvement. The
student executive board had
breakfast with the three can-didates
recently and only some
of the faculty were invited. So
students really shouldn't feel
left out."
Another concern was the
growing number of dissatisfied
faculty members leaving
Wesleyan, ultimately affecting
the student/faculty ratio.
Hess commented that,
"Faculty members are added
each year, mostly in the col-lege
of liberal arts. The rate we
can do this is limited because of
our budget. We would like to
see it increase of course. Right
now we are watching the
student/faculty ratio and are
Photo by Doug Volker, photo editor
Fielding questions from an audience of over 60 students, Glen Swichtenberg, Dick Whitlock, Jim
Ruoti, Wendell Hess, Ellen Hurwitz and Ken Browning spent an hour Sunday evening discussing
student concerns.
trying to keep it from
growing."
Hess continued, "We look at
it this way; it's not fair to hire
professors and give them
tenure and then our student
enrollment swings downward.
We think it is best to be conser-vative.
We're cutting our
budget right now so we may
hire more."
The need to increase faculty
led students to state how over-loaded
their advisors were,
which resulted in poorly
counseled students.
The Dean of Academic Af-fairs,
Ellen Hurwitz, agreed.
"I think we need more ad-visory
training. Some of our
faculty leave because they are
growing. Some leave because
they feel we don't enhance
them enough. We know it's a
growing issue and we know it
has its results. Over time we
will have to address it or we
won't be competitive."
Hess continued,"Most of our
faculty are not leaving because
they are disgruntled. Also if
Student
Reaction
Page 2
you look at it, we have a faculty
that everyone else wants;
that's not bad. We've definitely
got some good people."
Hess added, "This faculty
wants to keep with its students
to advise them and not change
this tradition. They feel it
keeps the rapport. There are
some areas though, like
business and biology, where
the shortages have been known
to be a problem for a long
time."
In response to a student in-quiring
if an increase in the
professors' salaries will result
when the tuition goes up $900
next fall, Hess replied that
"there are 119 faculty mem-bers
and they receive a 7.25 %
increase in salary regularly."
Hurwitz interjected by ad-mitting
that "many of our
faculty feel they are underpaid
relatively speaking to other
compatible universities. We
simply cannot afford to com-pete
with all of them."
ricerns
Hess continued, "We have to
remember also that state and
federal aid will be decreased
next year. We will pay $372,000
of Wesleyan money for stu-dents
to have financial aid.
Right now 83 % of students re-ceive
merit - or need-based
aid. We will supplement stu-dents
because we don't want
the only students attending
Wesleyan to be the ones that
can afford it."
Another question raised was
the controversy behind the
scheduling of the sleeping bag
weekends.
Currently there are two
sleeping bag weekends, one on
a weekday holiday (Martin
Luther King Jr.'s birthday)
and the other over a weekend,
which many felt presented the
university in an unfavorable
light, without regard to the
academic component of the
Wesleyan life.
Jim Ruoti, admissions direc-tor,
commented that, "It's im-portant
to keep in mind that
90% of the baggers have been
here before the weekend. They
have seen the academic life.
The weekend gives them a
touch of the social aspect of
Wesleyan. Singularly, students
don't wish to come overnight,
but they tend to want to come
when they're in a group...
Most of these who come though
have already been accepted
and have been here and know
about the academic perspec-tive."
Ken Browning, Wesleyan's
Business Manager, was ques-tioned
about Wesleyan's plans
to adopt a permanent recycling
program on campus.
Continued on page 3
It's almost over
Convocation to honor seniors
Eric Bryning, president of
the senior class, will preside at
the annual Honors Day Con-vocation
at 11 a.m. Wednes-day,
May 3, in Presser Hall.
The program, which is dedi-cated
to the seniors and to all
students who have earned
scholastic and activity recog-nition,
will be open free to the
public. The seniors will make
their first appearance in
graduation gowns.
Century Club Honoree Pam-ela
Muirhead, assistant profes-sor
of English, will be the
featured speaker. The title of
her remarks is "Pilate, Head-eye,
and the Home Folks."
Prior to Muirhead's speech,
Martha Brown, operations
manager of the Sears-Roebuck
and Co. store in the Eastland
Mall, will present Muirhead
the Sears-Roebuck Foundation
Award for Teaching Ex-cellence
and Campus Leader-ship,
which includes a plaque
and a check for $1,000.
Muirhead, a 1968 alumna of
Wesleyan, earned a master's
degree at Northwestern and a
Ph.D. at the University of Illi-nois.
She joined the faculty at
Wesleyan in 1972 and is presi-dent
of Phi Kappa Phi, national
scholastic honorary.
In addition, the University
will receive a grant of $1,500
through this program, which
was conceived by the Sears
Foundation and the Associated
Colleges of Illinois, a consor-tium
of private liberal arts col-leges,
to recognize excellence
in teaching.
Acting President Wendell
Hess will announce the name of
the next Century Club
Honoree, who will address the
Honors Day Convocation in
May 1990.
Robert Bray, R. Forrest Col-well
Professor of American
Literature, will introduce
students elected to Phi Kappa
Phi.
Four faculty - Dennie
Bridges, Athletic Director and
Assistant Professor of
Physical Education; Robert
Donalson, Associate Professor
of Voice; David Nott, Pro-fessor
of Voice and Choral
Music; and Jerry Stone,
McFee Professor of Religion-will
receive 25-year awards at
a luncheon following the con-vocation.
Seniors who will participate
in the program include Scot
New, who will deliver the in-vocation,
and organ major
Sandra Schaefer will play the
prelude and processional.
Junior David Jansen will play
the recessional and postlude.
Why study?
Photo by Doug Volker, photo editor
Taking some time out from classes, a few students lounge outside
the library. Enjoying the warm April weather, many students
found it hard to study.
The
Illinois
Wesleyan
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ILLINOIS WESF~i
0 W .."
Deodohcnet offreeprES
Devoted to the concept of free press
Open forum addresses students' coi
By Phyllis Cavallone
Co-News Editor
Members of Student Senate
and other concerned students
crowded into the Davidson
Room on April 23 to join in on
the cabinet forum led by Acting
President Wendell Hess.
The ongoing issue of the
Presidential search was one
topic which quickly surfaced.
Hess announced that the cur-rent
Presidential search
board, consisting of seven
trustees, two students and five
faculty members, have nar-rowed
the choice to three
finalists for the position. Ques-tions
were raised as to why
candidates were coming to
Wesleyan without student
knowledge.
Hess remarked that he was
"personally involved in the
process," and, "This is the
most open (Presidential
search) in my years here. It is
much more open with faculty
and student involvement. The
student executive board had
breakfast with the three can-didates
recently and only some
of the faculty were invited. So
students really shouldn't feel
left out."
Another concern was the
growing number of dissatisfied
faculty members leaving
Wesleyan, ultimately affecting
the student/faculty ratio.
Hess commented that,
"Faculty members are added
each year, mostly in the col-lege
of liberal arts. The rate we
can do this is limited because of
our budget. We would like to
see it increase of course. Right
now we are watching the
student/faculty ratio and are
Photo by Doug Volker, photo editor
Fielding questions from an audience of over 60 students, Glen Swichtenberg, Dick Whitlock, Jim
Ruoti, Wendell Hess, Ellen Hurwitz and Ken Browning spent an hour Sunday evening discussing
student concerns.
trying to keep it from
growing."
Hess continued, "We look at
it this way; it's not fair to hire
professors and give them
tenure and then our student
enrollment swings downward.
We think it is best to be conser-vative.
We're cutting our
budget right now so we may
hire more."
The need to increase faculty
led students to state how over-loaded
their advisors were,
which resulted in poorly
counseled students.
The Dean of Academic Af-fairs,
Ellen Hurwitz, agreed.
"I think we need more ad-visory
training. Some of our
faculty leave because they are
growing. Some leave because
they feel we don't enhance
them enough. We know it's a
growing issue and we know it
has its results. Over time we
will have to address it or we
won't be competitive."
Hess continued,"Most of our
faculty are not leaving because
they are disgruntled. Also if
Student
Reaction
Page 2
you look at it, we have a faculty
that everyone else wants;
that's not bad. We've definitely
got some good people."
Hess added, "This faculty
wants to keep with its students
to advise them and not change
this tradition. They feel it
keeps the rapport. There are
some areas though, like
business and biology, where
the shortages have been known
to be a problem for a long
time."
In response to a student in-quiring
if an increase in the
professors' salaries will result
when the tuition goes up $900
next fall, Hess replied that
"there are 119 faculty mem-bers
and they receive a 7.25 %
increase in salary regularly."
Hurwitz interjected by ad-mitting
that "many of our
faculty feel they are underpaid
relatively speaking to other
compatible universities. We
simply cannot afford to com-pete
with all of them."
ricerns
Hess continued, "We have to
remember also that state and
federal aid will be decreased
next year. We will pay $372,000
of Wesleyan money for stu-dents
to have financial aid.
Right now 83 % of students re-ceive
merit - or need-based
aid. We will supplement stu-dents
because we don't want
the only students attending
Wesleyan to be the ones that
can afford it."
Another question raised was
the controversy behind the
scheduling of the sleeping bag
weekends.
Currently there are two
sleeping bag weekends, one on
a weekday holiday (Martin
Luther King Jr.'s birthday)
and the other over a weekend,
which many felt presented the
university in an unfavorable
light, without regard to the
academic component of the
Wesleyan life.
Jim Ruoti, admissions direc-tor,
commented that, "It's im-portant
to keep in mind that
90% of the baggers have been
here before the weekend. They
have seen the academic life.
The weekend gives them a
touch of the social aspect of
Wesleyan. Singularly, students
don't wish to come overnight,
but they tend to want to come
when they're in a group...
Most of these who come though
have already been accepted
and have been here and know
about the academic perspec-tive."
Ken Browning, Wesleyan's
Business Manager, was ques-tioned
about Wesleyan's plans
to adopt a permanent recycling
program on campus.
Continued on page 3
It's almost over
Convocation to honor seniors
Eric Bryning, president of
the senior class, will preside at
the annual Honors Day Con-vocation
at 11 a.m. Wednes-day,
May 3, in Presser Hall.
The program, which is dedi-cated
to the seniors and to all
students who have earned
scholastic and activity recog-nition,
will be open free to the
public. The seniors will make
their first appearance in
graduation gowns.
Century Club Honoree Pam-ela
Muirhead, assistant profes-sor
of English, will be the
featured speaker. The title of
her remarks is "Pilate, Head-eye,
and the Home Folks."
Prior to Muirhead's speech,
Martha Brown, operations
manager of the Sears-Roebuck
and Co. store in the Eastland
Mall, will present Muirhead
the Sears-Roebuck Foundation
Award for Teaching Ex-cellence
and Campus Leader-ship,
which includes a plaque
and a check for $1,000.
Muirhead, a 1968 alumna of
Wesleyan, earned a master's
degree at Northwestern and a
Ph.D. at the University of Illi-nois.
She joined the faculty at
Wesleyan in 1972 and is presi-dent
of Phi Kappa Phi, national
scholastic honorary.
In addition, the University
will receive a grant of $1,500
through this program, which
was conceived by the Sears
Foundation and the Associated
Colleges of Illinois, a consor-tium
of private liberal arts col-leges,
to recognize excellence
in teaching.
Acting President Wendell
Hess will announce the name of
the next Century Club
Honoree, who will address the
Honors Day Convocation in
May 1990.
Robert Bray, R. Forrest Col-well
Professor of American
Literature, will introduce
students elected to Phi Kappa
Phi.
Four faculty - Dennie
Bridges, Athletic Director and
Assistant Professor of
Physical Education; Robert
Donalson, Associate Professor
of Voice; David Nott, Pro-fessor
of Voice and Choral
Music; and Jerry Stone,
McFee Professor of Religion-will
receive 25-year awards at
a luncheon following the con-vocation.
Seniors who will participate
in the program include Scot
New, who will deliver the in-vocation,
and organ major
Sandra Schaefer will play the
prelude and processional.
Junior David Jansen will play
the recessional and postlude.
Why study?
Photo by Doug Volker, photo editor
Taking some time out from classes, a few students lounge outside
the library. Enjoying the warm April weather, many students
found it hard to study.
The
Illinois
Wesleyan
rriaay, Hpni c 1, 1 wu t5loominyLu117 11111 W10 U I IV I 0
r-°:r. ,..o A nrll 4 1051 Qlr, - n+nn Illinnic,, 7n1